Pretty Indoor Plant???

Hi! As a project for my Biology class, I need to, with my group, sucessfully grow and maintain an indoor plant. This plant has to be over 3 inches tall and we would also like it to maybe flower. Does anyone have any idea where we could buy this kind of indoor plant...if it exsists. It has to be able to survive in the classroom with sunlight. Thank you for any ideas!!! =)

Pretty Indoor Plant???
Hello. I am a Certified Master Gardener. Horticulture was my major in college, and I work with plants as a volunteer at my local University Botanic Gardens.



Some good indoor plants which flower well are:



Abutilon (Flowering Maple)

Begonia

Orchids

Cyclamen

Impatiens

Primula



I sincerely hope this helps.



PAMELA J.
Reply:I like spider plants ... even though the flower is not showy, it does flower frequently ... readily available even at your local supermarket
Reply:Go to your local garden center or Lowes, Home Depot and find a plant there.. They have hundreds of plants to choose from, even ones that grow in sunlight.
Reply:What way or ways do the windows face, and how warm is the classroom? Where are you (general idea... Portland, OR's drizzly winter days have much less light than Orlando, FL, for instance).



There are many interesting plants that will manage in many circumstances, but lots more that will do better if the conditions are a bit more to their liking. For instance, in a relatively cool,

bright classroom, I might suggest a cyclamen, while for a north-facing classroom in Portland, I might suggest something like

cast iron plant, which requires very low levels of illumination

to survive.



Relatively cheap, easy to find, and pretty amenable to most classrooms are the old standbys, garden geranium and one of the hard-leafed peperomias like P. obtusifolia. Crassula argentea, jade plant, is another old reliable, as is Devils' ivy,

Sciandapsis aurea (under many synonyms).



With the 3 inch height limitation, however, you're missing out on a lot of interesting plants that are fun to raise from seed like Lithops and various cacti.



Kay, whose mother was called to school for a conference after they figured out who planted the dwarf marigolds in the officially sanctioned (and very boring) classroom planter when she was in 1st grade
Reply:There are many houseplants. You will find them at nurseries and garden centers.



Take a look at this one:

http://www.flowers.org.uk/plants/popups/...



Here is more informtion:

http://www.flowers.org.uk/plants/caretip...